Re: should TCPs do MTU black hole detection?

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> > I'm wondering whether the ISP community has a clear preference for either
> > yes-do-detection or no-we-want-the-problems-fixed.
> > Comments appreciated.
> I think that most ISP's would prefer that problems were fixed.

the choice seems 

  o when it breaks, the noc gets the call, debugs it, and it gets fixed

  o when it breaks, the software does successive guesswork back-offs until
    it makes it through.  the performance sucks big-time, the customer
    thinks the isp is at fault, but the noc does not get called and the
    real problem never gets fixed.

randy